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For small caps, the first quarter of 2018 started off calmly but ended with lots of volatility. While the Russell 2000 largely recovered by the end of Q1, the real story turned out to be the contrast between the performance of small caps versus large caps.

Climate change has been a long-standing area of focus for FTSE Russell and our clients since the launch of the Climate Criteria for FTSE4Good in 2007 which was unveiled at an event with the then UK Energy and Climate Change Minister David Miliband. Since then over the last 11 years there has been ongoing enhancements and a wide range of new data, tools and indexes that we have developed to help our clients integrate climate into investments and engagement.

While some US investors may view international equity markets as a single uniform asset class, in reality the global equity market landscape is widely varied, representing many market and economic conditions. To illustrate this point, FTSE Russell recently analyzed several fundamental measures of Developed and Emerging market countries in its FTSE Global Equity Index Series.

A longstanding design feature of fixed income benchmarks has been to not track securities one year prior to maturity to reflect convergence in their behavior to money market instruments as they approach maturity.

As the global women’s rights movement has continued to gain momentum over the past year, we re-examine whether we were any closer to gender parity in the corporate boardroom. Unfortunately, the glass still remains just 5% full for female CEOs for companies in the Russell 3000® Index.

Industrial property was the strongest developed market property sector in 2017 and continued to lead the other sectors in the first quarter of 2018 with a total return of 20% in US dollar terms over the 12 months ended March 30, 2018.

Growing competition continues to drive innovation in the market data and information space. And, while leading firms may have additional scale and first mover advantage, products and services in this very fast-moving industry can become commoditized very quickly, and the barriers to entry are low for anyone with a great idea.

By: Catherine Yoshimoto, senior product manager at FTSE Russell, and Ed Frauenheim, director of research and content at Great Place to Work

The latest edition of the annual FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For list affirms once again that great workplaces benefit from stronger financial performance, reduced turnover and better customer and patient satisfaction than their peers. FTSE Russell – which annually analyzes the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For list – this year found that an equally-weighted index of the publicly-traded companies among the 100 best returned 11.66% annually from 1998 through the end of 2016, nearly 5% more than the equivalent returns for the benchmark US all-cap Russell 3000 Index and US large cap Russell 1000 Index.

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FTSE Russell has launched a new Shariah-compliant index tracking companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The FTSE ST Singapore Shariah Index has been designed to track Shariah-compliant companies listed on SGX and can used as the basis of investment products.

Reflects ongoing progress by China toward market reforms and increased access for global investors
China A Shares to be included in phased timeline, starting from June 2019
Eligible large, mid and small cap designated stocks from the FTSE China A Stock Connect All Cap Index
China A Shares will represent c. 5.5%* of FTSE Emerging Index once fully implemented in Phase 1
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